You aren’t wrong Kris, though it was total BS on why Amazagurl broke up with him in the first place, only to make nice with Sal later, Not to mention that Yet again, Walky goes out with the girl that broke up with him. I am hoping that new and cool Danny would still be OK with this, because he is way better than “garbage” (their words not mine)

That’s exactly why Danny shouldn’t care. Amber was kind of awful to him during that breakup. Her hypocrisy alone makes it not worth being upset over. Danny deserves and is getting better than that now.

New Danny was making petty remarks not even a week ago comic time.
I doubt he’s mature enough to take this in stride.
Though, how he finds out may be a factor.
Sal saying it in passing is better than Mike using it to make him jealous.

I mean, there are worse ways for a couple to get together. Like, sure, this is a rebound following a major relationship for Walky, and Amber really ought to do something about her friendly neighborhood skull sibling, but still, it makes them happy and they’re not murdering anyone (except maybe Danny’s pride)

Do you really think so? I read it as showing growth. Walky is learning to accept that things aren’t always what you expected, let alone hoped for, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them anyway. However wonderful the past is, we learn more and move on from it.

Memories and old favorites aren’t going anywhere. At the same time, even if it’s not the same as those movies, the new idea of Velociraptor is wonderful in its own way. It seems like Walky is finally starting to mature enough to embrace both.

It’s honestly probably gonna be pretty good for Dorothy- not because Walky was that bad for her, but because she’s going to realize something, somewhere she wants is out of her reach sometime, and it’s going to be less mind-shattering if the first time around it’s some dude she’s dated for a few weeks than, say, her Yale plans…

She has kind of the same issues with failure being Unacceptable as he does, even if her coping mechanisms are more socially acceptable.

Huh. Never thought about that last part before.
They do both hate failure.
It’s just their reasons are different (he fears parental rejection while she fears not achieving her goals) and their reactions are different (he never had to struggle before so spirals further down the more he has to struggle while she sacrifices everything but the goal).

Yeah I’m not sure if I like this yet… Walky is rushing into a rebound with thicc Dorothy and Amber is making out with the twin brother of the girl she stabbed? Of course this is going to make for excellent drama.

“Terrorkey” is the chipotle-infused, bacon-laden megabird stuffed with cornbread and habanero and hot links and demon tears that hardcore (TM) parents feed their kids for thanksgiving dinner along with bone-marrow gravy cranberry sauce so wack it’s actually just a hammer with fruit on it

I learned from a paleontologist who came to my store one day, apparently T. rex eggs were about the size of an ostrich egg and they were sized accordingly as babies. My takeaway from this was “d’awwww” and that in a real Jurassic Park situation, there’d be teacup T. rexes bred almost immediately as pets.

We’d get flocks of abandoned feral T-rex running around rural areas and parklands hassling farmers and native wildlife. And serious community service announcements of the “A T-Rex is for life, not just fir Christmas” kind. 🙂

Well done Walky, you learned a thing and you got smooches in return. This is nothing like your relationship with Dorothy at all. I am only being 50% sarcastic, the other half of me is happy for you so… good for you? I am still unsure how this whole thing will play out.

I think that’s mainly because everyone either recognizes the need to take precautions with sickle claws… or learned a collective national lesson after the Emu War. Don’t fuck with birds. They will, as a rule, fuck you up. (Anyone else sad Wikipedia no longer lists the emus as victors in the outcome block?)

One seems to be pretty high for human deaths from a bird, though. Some searching finds one drowned by a swan, one given a heart attack by a flock of gulls, and one stabbed by rooster with a knife. Australian soldiers are said to have lost the Great Emu War, but still suffered no casualties.

… I had to Google those last two. (Sadly the rooster had a knife because cockfighting. Looking at reports, that likely wasn’t the only similar incident. The gulls had their nest on the other victim’s roof and he was disturbing it because he was tired of bird droppings. I reiterate: Do Not Fuck With Birds.)

Stay far, FAR away from the males in springtime. They’re claiming territory and strutting around trying to woo the females, and even getting near them can be perceived as you contesting both of those things. There are a couple gangs of wild turkeys that are in a multi-generational turf war over the office park I work in.

It sems like they’ve become more agressive over the last couple years, too.

Back when I was much younger, a couple of houses down the street was a family that brought borderline wild turkeys into the neighborhood, ostensibly to raise them for something, but they were simply dumped outside and allowed to run free.

Fucking things nearly gored me once. My older brothers beat them away with a rake and then we got the police involved.

but seriously though, I’ve just finished what I can honestly say is the worst week of my entire life (lol tons of work + I found out I’ve been in an abusive relationship for the last year + homesickness), and DOA has been such a joy to come back to at the end of the day. keep on writing this fun and amazing webcomic!

I didn’t even notice Dina’s t-shirt until you called it out, that is awesome. I really want to see one of the AI in the background one day, just because it would amuse me to know they exist in this world. Also because I like to imagine Amber, Danny and/or Ethan trying to become friends with one from the QC cast.

Don’t make me get the hose you two….Fun note though I still wonder if Amber kept the toy Walky threw at her, Some men give you jewelry, boxes of Candy, and flowers, but Walky ? No he just chucks figurines at you.

Listen, if you want to like the JP raptors (with feathers, because coelurasaurs) just say Deinonychus. That was what they were, Chrichton just liked the Velociraptor name better.

And yep. This is a relationship. God help us when the secrets are revealed. *Continues on fort parapets. We’re gonna be here a while, folks, and I will be DREADING EVERY MINUTE OF IT because all the cute’s gonna hurt more when Walky finds it all out.*

It’s been a while, but I seem to recall the BOOK raptors were actually appropriately sized? They still didn’t have feathers, because at that time that wasn’t a thing, but I seem to recall the size was correct.

The excuse was that we don’t know everything, so at least one of the dinosaurs should turn out to be a surprise. It’s true that Dilophosaurus very probably didn’t have a frill; but it’s also true that 20 guesses with 95% confidence will have one mistake. 🙂

Really I think it’s that they added the frill and the spitting venom and scaled down its size while scaling the Velociraptors up. Three odd (If narratively and visually justifiable) changes on one dinosaur stands out more than just one.

And hey, they’re all a step up from the Telltale Game’s Hilariously Murdersaurus Troodons. (Smart? I mean, sure, that’s pretty likely. Nocturnal with glowing eyes? Not entirely implausible. Venom that causes aggression, hallucinations, seizures and convulsions, and finally paralysis and brain death? Um, you’re losing me here. Uses that venom’s final stage to make you the nest for its eggs?… Telltale, no. And unlike the Indominus family, these weren’t supposed to have been genetically tampered with, whatsoever.)

No, there was frog DNA, which let them change sexes! …And might explain the lack of feathers, but not anything else.

I’d assumed the Dilophosaurus was supposed to be a baby. They could also be undiscovered relatives of different sizes – it’s not like the amber was being taken from Arizona. But you’re right, it’s a lot of stretches at once.

The Troodons, specifically, created for the Telltale game specifically, apparently have both male and female specimens and were created with no fill-ins because the game-exclusive character who made them was doing so independently and really set on ‘real dinosaurs don’t have frog DNA’. All the more reason why they probably should have been destroyed the moment everyone realized they were ridiculous horror movie monsters and she should not have been responsible for doing so.

No, the implication here is that these Troodons are supposed to be ACTUALLY WHAT TROODONS WERE LIKE.

Nah, Willis and Jeph Jacques are good friends and spend a lot of on-line time teasing each other. This particular shout-out is almost certainly a response to a recent QC strip where Dina is briefly seen hiding behind the counter of the coffee shop.

I mean, I think Dina has every right to veto someone in her bedroom. It’s also her living space, and if she doesn’t want Amber’s new boyfriend in her bedroom, I think that’s reasonable and should be respected.

I don’t know why she’d have a real problem with it, but people have barged into Dina’s bedroom unwelcomed, and it’s nice that she’s at least trying to stand up for her own personal space.

College dorm spaces are complicated. They’re not just bedrooms and you really can’t treat them as if they are. They’re not actually private spaces in anything like the same way we usually treat bedrooms.

Dina certainly has some say, but not as casually as you seem to imply.

Nonetheless. Controlling who your roommate can have in their only (semi)private space is rude. It’s one thing to push back against someone particularly offensive or who is otherwise a problem – or to establish general rules about overnight guests and the like, but demanding to control any guests is not a good sign.

Mind you I don’t think that’s what Dina’s doing here. I’m not actually sure what she’s doing, other serving as the excuse for some jokes.

It’s not rude, it’s rude to have people inside Dina’s bedroom who she doesn’t approve of. If Dina had been assaulted at the party, it would be entirely reasonable for her to say, not want men in her bedroom. Or if Joyce offended her with her bible talk, it would be entirely reasonable to say “I don’t want this person who is unaccepting and nasty towards me in my living space.”

That’s what a shared living space is. You don’t bring people inside of it unless both people are comfortable, because both people involved deserve to have a space devoid of those who make them uncomfortable. Walky and Amber can go chill on the roof or something if Dina doesn’t want Walky there.

“No one in the room without approval from both roommates is definitely in at least some of those contracts. Because that’s an entirely reasonable thing to expect. “If you want to have friends over, let me know.” Just because it’s Amber’s room too doesn’t meant Amber gets to bring in a strange boy and fuck him right there while Dina studies.

Not that Walky is a stranger, or that Dina has an obvious dislike of him, but she also shouldn’t need to prepare a huge dissertation on why she doesn’t want someone in her room. “I don’t want company right now” is really reason enough.

People who wish for the LEAST interaction get priority. It almost certainly doesn’t apply in Walky’s case, but I’m betting we wouldn’t be having this discussion if Amber wanted, say, Faz there or if Dina wanted Blaine there.

I mean, Dina has been vetting people coming in on BEHALF of Amber, never for any other reason than for Amber’s well-being/express wishes, and so I think this is an extension of that. I doubt there’s been enough time for Amber to have told Dina “hey I have a new boyfriend”. Last time I remember Walky coming in, he charged right on in like a maniac, impersonating a dinosaur and junk. So I feel like this is merely Dina going “oh no it’s that rude dude who also likes the Indominus Rex, what’s he want? Oh he’s seen the light and actually knows dino stuff? Aaand they’re smooching.”

I’m surprised people seem to have forgotten that Amber’s had Dina watch her door and keep people out. This isn’t behavior that Dina has ever done for HERSELF. It has always been for Amber, Amber’s wishes to keep certain people out. Joyce, Ethan, Danny, everyone besides Ruth who is the RA so she kinda supersedes Dina. It’s not the healthiest thing, cause sometimes Amber has needed those people, but Dina’s just trying to respect her roommate’s wishes.

My only guess there (since it is definitely something she does on Amber’s behalf since she rejected Ethan when he wanted in to see Amber who didn’t wanna see anybody) is that someone with good dino knowledge must be someone who can be trusted. Even if, in Walky’s case, he was kinda fed the info.

My inner Dina begs me to point out that it would more correctly be Zuul crurivastator; scientific names are always italicized (unless handwritten, in which case they’re underlined instead), and the specific epithet – the “second word” in the name, which is the word that identifies the specific species (to use an example, Panthera is a genus of big cats, and you need to specify P. tigris, P. uncia, P. onca, P. leo, or P. pardus to determine if you’re referring to tigers, snow leopards, jaguars, lions, or leopards), is never capitalized.

As an aside, I’ve always had a bit of fondness for the dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, which means “dragon-king of Hogwarts”. 😛

Yep, gotta love that one. Somewhat relatedly, there’s also a species of fossil beetle preserved in amber which comes to mind because it was also named T. rex – spelling being everything, the T in this case stands for Tyrannasorus, not Tyrannosaurus.

(One of my favorite bits on that page so far is about this English guy who named a bunch of true bug genera so that they ended with -chisme – Ohchisme, Elachisme, Florichisme, Isachisme, Marichisme, Nanichisme, Peggichisme, Polychisme – and was posthumously “criticsized for frivolity” by the London Zoological Society.)

Well, disliking is a form of caring with this one I’m just like “Okay I’m bored now. I just don’t give a crap about Amber or Walky at this point so the fact that this is a drama bomb waiting to happen creates no tension because it’s just going to be funny when it blows up in their faces.

Ppl are all scared abt this relationship, I’m just gonna focus on the fact that this is the first relationship we see AMBER have. Not AmaziGirl. Amber. She never had Danny, even though she liked him. Even if it all goes up in flames later today, I’m still proud of her for going for it, on her own, even after knowing he’s Sal’s brother.

And it’s probably gonna be good for Walky too, his relationship with Dorothy got super unhealthy at some point and the boy needs a break.

I just still can’t believe that all of this has happened so far is just like… what? A few weeks into a semester? My first freshman semester was never this crazy. Then again, I remember being more like Amber and just not leaving my room… and my campus was the size of 2-3 city blocks….